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Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-280) and index.

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A brilliant career, a tragic death -- Hollywood beckons the widow Gehrig -- The tears of a mogul -- In search of Lou Gehrig -- Babe on film -- Not all Yankees welcome -- The producer and the star -- Eleanor: defender of Lou's legacy -- Teresa Wright will not do cheesecake! -- Becoming Lou: Cooper learns to play baseball -- Did Cooper, a right-hander, become Gehrig, a left-hander? -- Mama's boy -- "Lou seems to have become more Gary Cooper than Lou Gehrig" -- Words for all time -- A screening -- "Luckiest man" in the South Pacific -- Epilogue: Cooper says good-bye.

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The New York times award-winning sports columnist shares the behind-the-scenes story of how the classic film "Pride of the Yankees" came to be created.